The Ray Bradbury Theater (s04e08)

The Toynbee Convector

by Ray Bradbury, directed by John Laing

Release: 26 October 1990
Format: TV Episode
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Debatable Time Travel
Original Language: English

At the end of Bradbury’s adaptation of his own earlier story, he adds a holo-twist that viewers of The Ray Bradbury Theater may have enjoyed.

— Michael Main

Stiles: For years I brooded on it. I was in complete despair, and then one night, I was rereading H. G. Wells and his wonderful time machine, and then it struck me. “Eureka!” I cried, “I’ve found it. This [pounds book in hand] is my blueprint.”

DEBUT

The Ray Bradbury Theater (s04e08), “The Toynbee Convector” (USA Network, USA, 26 October 1990).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

PRIOR WORKS: based on “The Toynbee Convector” by Ray Bradbury

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 2000 to 2099: The “trip” began in the year 2000.
Circa AD 2100 to 2199: One hundred years later.

Time Travel Methods

Wellsian Time Machines

Themes

Apparent Time Phenomenon Is Not What It Seems

Groupings

The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV series): (s04e08), 26 October 1990

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Classification—As with <a href='2029'>the original story</a>, it would be more accurate to classify “Toynbee” as having no time phenomena, but we couldn’t bring ourselves to do that.